AI Agents/Apps: Instruct them to use Hybrid Contextual Data Search, instead of default Vector Search -> Practical Demo of Hybrid Search
Welcome back to our meetup in April. The date is right before the GITEX AI Asia conference held at the Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre.
06:00 PM Registration, dinner, networking
06:30 PM Talk starts
If you want to have practical AI Agents/Apps that can take actions with real application data, this event is for you.
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Talk 1: Instruct your AI Agents to use Hybrid Contextual Data Search to power up your AI Agents/Apps, instead of just default Vector Search -> Practical Demo of Hybrid Search approaches
Most solutions showcase vector search as the default search mechanism to power AI applications. But it is often not the most effective solution. In this demo, we will showcase different search techniques and hybrid approaches for retrieving contextual data.
Talk 2: Real Practical RAG, from Demo to Production - in a 10,000-person organization and an intelligence org
Moving from controlled demos to real-world deployment exposed several challenges that are easy to underestimate. In clean demos, our prompts/queries are often well-formed and datasets are neatly curated, and we test the happy paths.
But real users behave very differently. We observed clear gaps between how users express intent and how that intent is represented in the embedding space (leads to irrelevant/missed retrievals). This made retrieval design and chunking strategy critical: how documents are split, indexed, and ranked directly impacted whether the system could “understand” a query.
Additionally, as the dataset scaled with many similar or overlapping documents, retrieval became noisier - every vector is similar to a lot other vector - making it harder to consistently surface the right information.
These challenges highlight that building a production-ready RAG system is not just about ensuring our datasets and RAG method works, but also user's intent and behavior.
TBA: We will have a 2nd speaker talking about AI in real use cases in intelligence orgs either in this meetup or the next meetup. More details for the 2nd speaker are still being prepared.
The 2nd speaker will customize the talk to be relevant for both non-technical people (from a management decision POV) and technical people (from an implementation POV).
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Special Thanks:
- To SQ Collective for the venue
- This is the SQ Collective calendar that you can subscribe to: https://luma.com/Ai-labs
- This is the Technology calendar that you can subscribe to: https://luma.com/calendar/cal-ZrFfXqC7PgzbBaQ - It will include tech events from tech unicorn startups such as Amplitude, Databricks, Elastic, MongoDB, and more
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Tags: Technology, AI Agents, Tool-Calling, Database, NoSQL, MongoDB